[Leica] IMG: Studio portrait with the S2

[John McMaster]

And about 1250USD more than the non-CS, some of the lenses (24, 30/90, 100, 120 T/S) are not available with CS

john

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And some very cool technology making it work.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com


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>Central Shutter (sort of leaf shutter), allows flash sync up to 1/1000th second for fill in flash but also works normally if wanted; back of the camera has choice of which shutter to use.
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>john
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>what's different with CS lenses (like i'll ever need to know;^)
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>ric
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>> On Jan 24, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you to those few folks that took a look and commented on or off list.
>> We had a lot of fun with this concept, the model is both pretty and a 
>> lovely person to work with and our HMUA and Henna artist is wonderful. 
>> The portraits are primarily for her portfolio in fact.
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/158919214
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>> This is the main gallery from our shoot here. We came up with some fun 
>> costumes for our boho/bellydancer theme.
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/kmtg
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>> The 2.5 120 lens is fabulous for portraits of course. I didn't get the 
>> CS version in order to save some money. I do use that function a lot 
>> with the standard 70 lens though.
>> For outside location shoots, I have discovered the high speed sync 
>> functions available with the dedicated flash gun. So that will be fun 
>> to experiment with TTL and controlled fill there.
>> 
>> Almost everything I'm shooting now is with this system and it is 
>> actually a little strange to use the M stuff now when I do!  Getting 
>> close to 10,000 frames with the S2 now. Lots of work with it in my galleries, anyway.
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>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
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